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Tony Sumner wrote: > On Feb 14, 2008, Kevin Lucas was like: > > >> I 'Must use M$ Office' >> > > I have this from my daughter. I bought a laptop for her and got her > started with Firefox, Open Office etc but she has now migrated to M$ - > because she needs to share files with her colleagues who have M$ > Office. She does have a licence. She claims that if you try to write > stuff with OO Calc, save it as .xls and send it to a M$ Office user > they can't read it. That was my experience some while ago; has it > changed? She is not unwilling to try things but I have had to relent. > (PS it is now running so slowly as to be unusable but that is another > story . .) > > Tony Sumner > > Does the recipient need to read or edit the spreadsheet, surely if its just reading it, then all thats needed is to save as pdf, Paul -- Support open file formats use ISO 26300 Open Document format as used by openoffice.org, http:///www.openoffice.org visit us on IRC - irc.flashtek-uk.com / 6667 #dclug -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- DI! D++ G e H! r! z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html